Hooking up old Graphite Airport to wired router.

I had my old Graphite Aiport hooked up to a D-Link wired router which I also used for my iMac and Dell. The Airport was working like a charm until last week when the my D-Link wired router went kaput. I went out and bought a new D-link wired router (ERB-2310) and couldn't get it to connect to the internet through the router like it was before. I remember when I hooked up my Graphite Airport to the router last time that there was some sort of trick to it. Can anyone help me?
Power Book   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   Graphite Airport

Laura,
the broadband router must be configured to dynamically assign IP addresses within a certain range.
When I got my Netgear, I had to log on to the router and configure the machine to dynamically assign the addresses from 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.5 to connect our four machines.
If this parameter is not configured correctly and the router has a range of let's say 1 address available, it will not allow you to connect more than 1 machine.
The example would be:
192.168.0.1 (Router address)
192.168.0.2 (CPU)
You need to alter the number of addresses used by the router, as follows:
From 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.4
192.168.0.1 (Router address)
192.168.0.2 (CPU 1)
192.168.0.3 (CPU 2)
192.168.0.4 (CPU 3)
Hope this helps.
cheers

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